Odžić: In a country where journalists are summoned to court and politicians are protected by parliamentary immunity, something urgently needs to change

Deputy President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and European Alliance official Petar Odžić condemned the initiation of proceedings before the Court of Misdemeanors against journalist and columnist Brano Mandić.

"In a country where journalists are summoned to court for satire, and a politician who, as the 'president of all Nikšić citizens', calls for religious and national conflicts, Andrija Mandić is protected by parliamentary immunity, something urgently needs to change. We will all go to court with Brano, so let them try to silence us," Odžić wrote on the X network.

Mandić informed the public on Friday that the Police Directorate had initiated proceedings against him before the Minor Offences Court in Podgorica due to allegations from a column in which he criticized a public speech by University of Montenegro professor Aleksandar Stamatović.